Harness hip-pad.



J. C. PROEBSTEL.

HARNESS HIP PAD.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1916.

1 08,652. Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

JULIUS C. PROEBSTEL, 0F PORTLAND. OREGON.

HARNESS HIP-PAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1916.

Application filed May 20, 1916. Serial No. 98,868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs C. PRoEBsTEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Harness Hip-Pad, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a hip pad adapted to be employed on a harness for the purpose of connecting the back straps with the suspension straps which uphold the breeching.

The invention aims to provide a device whereby the necessary adjustments with respect to the breeching supporting straps and the back straps may be made from a point above the back of the animal.

The invention aims to improve the construction of the strap holding pad generally, and to provide novel means, constituting a part of the pad, for binding together the suspension straps and the back straps.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 shows in perspective, a harness wherewith the device forming the subject matter of this application has been assembled; Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken through the hip pad and the straps held thereby; Fig. 3 is a section of the hip pads, the cutting plane being passed substantially at right angles to the cutting plane in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a top plan of the pad, the clamping cap having been removed; Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are diagrammatic plan views illustrating the manner in which the several straps are assembled with the hip pad; Fig. 8 is a fragmental section applicable to all of the straps which are assembled with the hip pad.

The hip pad forming the subject matter of this application embodies a base 1 which may be of circular outline, the base preferably being fashioned from a leather. A

plied to the lower face of the base 1 is a pad 2 which may be made of felt or any other suitable material, the pad being held to the base by a stitching indicated at 3. Superposed on the base 1 is a foot plate 4, which may be made of metal, the foot plate being secured to the base by means of securing devices such as rivets 5.

The invention comprises a pair of intermediate pins 6 and 7, and a pair of side pins 8 and 9, all of the pins passing through the foot plate 4 and being provided on their lower ends with heads 10 which engage the under surface of the foot plate. In this connection it is to be observed that the base 1, being secured to the foot plate 4 by means of the rivets 5, constitutes a means for holding the pins 6, 7, 8 and 9 assembled with the foot plate.

assing upwardly through the foot 4: adjacent its longitudinal center is a threaded stud 11 having a head 12 which engages the under surface of the foot plate. The stud 11 preferably is secured to the foot plate so that the stud cannot rotate, the pins 6, 7, 8 and 9, however, ordinarily being merely inserted through suitable openings in the foot plate and being held therein by the leather base 1.

The invention comprises a cap 15 made of metal, and through the cap 15 the stud 11 passes. Threaded onto the stud 11 is a wing nut which coacts with the cap 15. The cap 15 is distorted to form sockets or seats 16 in which the upper ends of the pins 6, 7, 8 and 9 are received.

The hames of the harness are shown at 17, the numeral 18 indicating the saddle, and the breeching appearing at 19. A pair of back straps 20 are assembled with the hames 17 and pass across the saddle 18. Detachably secured to the breeching 19 are forward breeching supporting straps 21, rear breeching supporting straps 22 being shown. All of the straps 20, 21 and 22 are provided with openings 23 which, if desired, may carry gromets 24, as shown in Fig. 9.

Although the several straps above mentioned may be assembled with the pad in any desired manner, the back straps 20 preferably are engaged with the side pins 8 and 9 as in Fig. 5. The forward, breeching supporting straps 21 are then mounted on the intermediate pin 7 as shown in Fig. 6, the rear breeching supporting straps 22 being mounted on the intermediate pin 6.

plate The cap 15 is mounted on the stud 11, the wing nut 14 being threaded onto the stud and being screwed down onto the cap 15, so that the latter binds all of the straps between the cap and the foot plate 4.

From the foregoing it will be observed that an exceedingly simple device is provided whereby all of the several straps may be taken up and adjusted from a single part of application on the back of the animal wherewith the harness is assembled.

Owing to the fact that the upper ends of the pins 6, 7 S and 9 are received in the sockets or seats 16 of the cap 15, the cap will not rotate when the wing nut 14 is rotated and brought into bearing with the cap.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A harness comprising a breeching; back straps; suspension straps assembled with the breeching; a foot plate; side pins and an intermediate pin carried by the foot plate, the side pins being engaged with the back straps the suspension straps being mounted on the intermediate pin; a stud upstanding from the foot plate; a cap on the stud to bind the straps upon the foot plate; and a tightening device on the stud to cause the cap to engage all of the said straps firmly.

2. In a device-of the class described a foot plate; intermediate pins upstanding from the foot plate; side pins upstanding from the foot plate; a breeching; forward suspension straps assembled with the breeching the upper ends of the suspension straps being engaged with one of the intermediate pins; rear suspension straps assembled with the breeching, the upper ends of the rear suspension straps being mounted on the other of the intermediate pins; a pair of Copies of this patent may be obtained for back straps, the back straps being mounted on the side pins; a stud upstanding from the foot plate; a cap through which the stud passes, the cap coacting with the foot plate to bind all of the straps with respect to the foot plate; and a tightening device on the stud and coacting with the cap.

3. A strap holding hip pad for a harness comprising a foot plate; a studupstanding from the foot plate; pins upstanding from the foot plate; a cap through which the stud passes, the cap being provided with seats receiving the pins; and a tightening device on the stud and coacting with'the cap.

4. In a strap holding hip pad for aharness a foot plate; a stud assembled with the foot plate; pins passing upwardly through the foot plate andprovided with heads engaging the lower'fa ce of the foot plate; a base engaging the heads of the pins; means for securing the base to the foot plate; a

cap through which the stud passes; and a tightening device on the stud and coacting with the cap. 7 V 5. In a strap, holding hip pad for a harness; a foot plate; a stud upstanding from the foot plate; pins extendedthrough the foot plate and provided with heads engaging the lower face of the foot plate; a base engaging the heads of the pins; means for securing the base to the foot plate; a cap through which the stud passes, the cap belng provlded with seatsreceivlng the pins;

and a tightening device on the stud, the

tightening device coacting withthe cap.

In testimony that]: claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto atliXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' JULIUS C. PROEBSTEL. lVitnesses:

JOHN B. FRosT, L. MILLER.

Washington, D. G. 

